The concept of gentrification has been used indiscriminately to explain new urban phenomena. However, its analytical power is limited to the specific historical context in which it was conceived. Consequently, it fails to provide a comprehensive framework for addressing the challenges faced by inhabitants who are displaced from their territories due to a complex array of factors that can no longer be reduced to the simple social process of a middle class buying and renovating marginal properties, which then escalates into a mass phenomenon driven solely by real estate market forces and urban regulations. This conceptual myopia hinders a clear understanding of reality and, in turn, impedes the realization of the right to the city. To overcome this limitation, this study aims to demonstrate the existence of a broader and more persistent pattern of spatial domination and reorganization. Using a critical-historical-comparative methodology, alongside documentary and hermeneutical analysis, the concept of gentrification is deconstructed. By comparing patterns of imposition from antiquity to modernity, and through the analysis of the case study of Medellín's Metro Line 80, this article reveals the enduring relevance of this logic. It posits the coloniality of urban space as a superior analytical framework for understanding how power, in alliance with capital, shapes territory and perpetuates exclusion.
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